Bad news, boys. It is now clear, after three games, that a whole new myriad of parking problems now plague Dodger Stadium in 2013.

I appreciate that it's the Opening Series, against the Giants, and that two of the games were sellouts. But our personal experience plus the experiences that we've heard from our readers indicate that the new system has lost ground in efficiency, rather than gained ground. It comes down to three causes:

1. They've moved diagonal parking inside the interior ring. This is a disaster as drivers have to back up into oncoming traffic, holding up main traffic lanes and arteries in order to get out of their spots. Getting out of Lot G (behind the pavilions and scoreboards), for example, is particularly treacherous.

2. The cones allowing for egress from the outside (general parking) lots, directing out the main arteries out of the stadium, have disappeared. As a result there is complete anarchy as drivers try to get out of the general parking lots--this was definitely our experience trying to get out of Lot 1 (left of the Sunset Gate).

3. They have cut back on human parking attendants, particularly those directing pedestrian traffic into the crosswalks. As a result, people are walking everywhere in between oncoming traffic, snarling traffic on the main rings again.

We're interested to hear if you readers have experienced any of these issues. Opening Day was a disaster exiting the Stadium, but I can give that a pass; but this can't continue.

Dodger Stadium has suffered from parking efficiency issues for years. Recently, many of these issues had been abated when attendance fell precipitously. But if Guggenheim Management expects the Dodgers to draw again, fixing the parking issues is a critical area to address and improve, in order to keep the customer experience top-notch.

SoSG is happy to help consult (for a fee). We'll be waiting for Kasten's call!

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Before, there were attendants guiding you all the way to your spot, so all spots got filled in order. Tuesday, there was only one attendant at the beginning of the aisle, and then it became a free-for-all. Cars were parked haphazardly, so a lot of spaces went unfilled.

Shin-Soo Choo homered on Joe Blanton's first pitch of the game Thursday, the first of Cincinnati's three homers off the right-hander, and the Reds pulled away to a 5-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.

How hard can it be to direct cars in a line to another set of lines...it appears the new organization hits the big picture but is missing the small stuff.

BTW, our VIP Experience for tomorrow night has us a the stadium at 5:10...that's when everyone gets in. Nothing special there. Our seats are 32FD level, so I think we're buying our own dogs...we'll see what the VIP experience is all about. Will report back Saturday....

This is really the essence of it. We can control the Mars Rover with an iPad but we can't park cars?

Opening Day parking (more specifically, exiting) was the worst I've ever experienced. Took me right at an hour to exit, and that was with me eventually just being an asshole and cutting in front of people recklessly. There has to be a better way.

Another annoyance was that I arrived at a specific gate that is associated with the exit I need to use in order to after the game put me back toward where I live. I happen to know that from years of parking there, though I don't know how a newbie or casual fan would have any idea. So when I went to park, they funneled me way around to a different section of parking, which meant that at game's end, I had to exit in a manner that sent me to an exit different from the easiest, shortest, most logical one for me to utilize to get home.

Being from Redlands, we took the Metrolink in and the shuttle to the stadium. The line for the shuttle after the game was so ridiculous we decided to walk to Union Station. We kept pace with one of the buses the entire time. I can only imagine the hours that it took to finally get everyone from Dodger Stadium to Union Station. After being a part of the shuttle debacle to the Colosseum a few years back, we didn't want to wait and find out.

Getting in is bad enough, but getting out is just a clusterfuck. It just turns into a free-for-all, and lot attendants don't even try to organize it. People create their own "lines", dicking others over in established lines and it just all goes to hell. There ARE ways to remedy this, but it would take a minimal effort on ownership's part...or McCourt's part, I don't know who would actually be in charge.